[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR156.3]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 156_VOLUNTARY INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION SERVICE
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Sec. 156.3  Kind of service; records.

    Laws, regulations or other requirements of foreign countries and 
specifications of contracts for the purchase and sale of animal 
products, on occasion require vendors of such products to furnish 
official certificates concerning the class, quality, quantity, or 
condition of such products to be imported into such countries or to be 
delivered under the contracts. The service under this part, shall 
consist of the inspection of the processing, handling, and storage of 
the products at any plant at which service is furnished and the 
certification, on the basis of such requirements of foreign countries or 
such contract specifications, of the class, quality, quantity, or 
condition of such of the products as are found to conform to such 
requirements or specifications as the case may be. Processing procedures 
will be actually supervised. The operator of the plant shall fully 
inform the inspector with respect to, and the inspector shall actually 
observe, the processing procedures, handling, and storage of the 
products intended for certification. The inspector shall keep such 
records of the temperatures reached, the duration of time the 
temperatures are maintained, and the pounds of pressure under which the 
products are cooked in the course of processing, and such

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other information, as are needed to justify the issuance of the 
certificates required.

[23 FR 10111, Dec. 23, 1958, as amended at 62 FR 19040, Apr. 18, 1997]